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- Title: Arches Hoodoo Spire
- Description: This classic hoodoo—an eroded column of rock—called Balanced Rock stands nearly 130 feet tall. Edward Abbey wrote his classic Desert Solitaire after living in a trailer near this site. Desert Solitaire," which was published in 1968, was based on his employment as a seasonal park ranger at what was then Arches National Monument during a three-year period starting in 1957. Those were simpler times, for Arches and for Abbey, who would become perhaps the world's most well-known naturalist/environmentalist/anarchist/curmudgeon before his death in 1989. He never met a tourist he liked. But in 1957 he took one look at sunrise over the "hoodoo stone of Arches" and, following the above lead paragraph, wrote, "For myself, I'll take Moab, Utah. I don't mean the town itself, of course, but the country which surrounds it — the canyonlands. The slickrock desert. The red dust and the burnt cliffs and the lonely sky — all that which lies beyond the end of the roads." Oh, that was another thing that was different. Arches didn't have roads in 1957. Not paved ones, anyway. When Abbey took over his caretaking duties at the ranger station near a structure that was known then, and still is, as Balanced Rock, he got there only after eight miles of washboard dirt road.
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- Added: Jun 1, 2018
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Arches National Park
Arches National Park is a United States National Park in eastern Utah. The park is adjacent to the Colorado River, 4 miles (6 km) north of Moab, Utah. It is home to over 2,000 natural sandstone...
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